democracyarsenal.org - 1/2/2009
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There are few topics more difficult to discuss in foreign policy circles than the Arab/Israeli conflict. Opinions on both sides are so hardened that it's become nearly impossible to have a cogent and unemotional conversation on the topic. But, I love a challenge - and after all we are a foreign ...
haaretz.com - 1/3/2009
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haaretz.com —
Palestinian witnesses said the artillery barrage caused a
large explosion in Gaza City as well as a
series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel. Channel 10 television quoted a witness as saying that Israel was shelling targets along the ...
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Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza ...
prospect.org - 1/1/2009
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prospect.org —
This blog is on a light schedule today
and tomorrow due to various New Years related program
activities, but it's worth quickly responding to Jonathan Chait's post on Israel and Palestine. Chait makes a common claim, which is that all analysis of the ...
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AN OCCUPIED NATION AND A THREATENED ONE.
latimes.com - 1/2/2009
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latimes.com —
It's a new year in an old and
bloody world. In Israel, politicians jockeying for power have
launched the most lethal military assault on Palestinian territory in decades. Israel has justified its bombardment of Gaza on the grounds that Hamas broke a ...
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Israel can't bomb its way to peace - Los Angeles Times
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Matthew Yglesias —
Michael Cohen writes:
If Israel dismantled all its settlements tomorrow, Hamas would not turn around and renounce violence; but if Hamas were to recognize Israel the path to reconciliation would be far easier to achieve.
This is totally true. But consider this proposition:
If Hamas were to recognize Israel tomorrow tomorrow, Israel would not turn around and renounce settlements; but if Israel were to dismantle all settlements the path to reconciliation would be far easier to achieve.
That’s ...
Going there
The Poor Man Institute —
... towards his own Cold War Manichaeism, and WPE shifted it even further own Nazis => Soviets => “Terror” Conservation of Evil transference. (Both, significantly, increased the defense budget to combat threats which bore less and less resemblence to the 40’s-50’s Nazi/Soviet model.) That these were both became “popular” at the time, I think, serves as a useful counter to both Greenwald’s and Cohen’s attempts to quantify the normalized public opiniovector on this issue: the public doesn’t make policy, because the public ...
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